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I believe that not only cursive writing, but cursive writing with a pencil on scratchy low-quality paper helped kids learn to read and spell. That muscle effort plus the slow painstaking creation of each letter while saying the sound of the letter in your head or outloud—and then blending it into the next connected letter—how could this not be helpful?

Melanie Sturm's avatar

I’ve been blown away by the quiet messages I’ve received — especially from people in the theater world — saying “Thank you for saying what I can’t.”

That’s exactly why I wrote Think Again: What I Learned in My Theater Board’s Gender Debate.

It’s not just about pronouns or policy — it’s about how to speak up persuasively when the stakes are…

Think Again: What I Learned in My Theater Board’s Gender Debate
Matt Taibbi's avatar

Yet another example of the kind of coverage that is so distractingly wrong that it makes it hard to focus on the supposed bigger issue. I continue to be mystified by editors who feel they need to do stuff like this

The New York Times gets ever more Orwellian in its effort to rewrite the story of Kilmar Abrego García's tattoos

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How Can You Be a Cop in a City That Hates You? Plus. . .
Ben Kawaller's avatar

Wrote this for

(whose readers seem to hate me a lot less this time!)

I Tried to Cover a May Day Protest. Antifascists Had a Problem With That.

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Roy Ben-Tzvi's avatar

This made me emotional and simultaneously angry that even when we are slaughtered we have to share our story in detail to get sympathy, it’s so backwards

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TRUMP'S "RECORD FUNDRAISER" (UPDATED AND REVISED)
Fred WI's avatar

So, $50 million and doubled Biden's are the shiny things, has Easley revealed the actual scam or ... should we watch out for some other big lie, covered by the lie about total raised.

TCinLA's avatar

They have to file an end-of-month report that they can't lie on.

Let’s see if the media slides it under the rug.

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